Friday, June 26, 2020, 3:29 PM
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A nice month is coming for enthusiasts of (army) helicopters. Between July 1 and 24, 77 American helicopters fly over the region that lands in the port of Rotterdam. The United States has asked the Dutch defense to supervise this process.
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Scattered over this period, much American equipment is transported from Eindhoven to Rotterdam. In addition to the flying helicopters, 1,800 other vehicles and containers will be moved on Dutch roads.
All material is brought back to America from the port of Rotterdam. The helicopters and other materiel have been used in Europe for responding to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and for training with Eastern European members of NATO. About a hundred Dutch soldiers are deployed in Eindhoven, Rotterdam and in between to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
For helicopter enthusiasts, the 77 American examples consist of three different types: the UH-60 Black Hawk, the CH-47 Chinook and the AH-64 Apache.
It happens more often that Americans move the material within the Netherlands. This also happened in October 2019.
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